Observer States

Herwig van Staa calls on ''United Cities and Local Governments'' to support draft World Charter of Local Self-Government at UN[03/05/2004]

Herwig van Staa, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, speaking at the Paris launch of ''United Cities and Local Governments'', told this new world organisation that he ''would be very grateful if your new body could use its world-wide influence to take further, within the United Nations, the steps towards a World Charter of Local Self-Government''. The United Nations system could thus acquire ''a genuine local government dimension'', he added.
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